January 17–March 17, 2014
UNC Asheville’s juried national exhibition, Drawing Discourse, will open with special events on Jan. 17 featuring renowned artist, Val Britton. The exhibition features 47 works of contemporary drawing selected from more than 1,100 submissions by 379 artists representing 6 different countries.
Juror Val Britton is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist based in San Francisco, whose mixed media works incorporate “the language of maps” through collage, drawing, painting, staining, printing, stitching and cutting paper. Val Britton received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. Exhibited both nationally and internationally, her work is held in several public collections including the New York Public Library, the New-York Historical Society, the Library of Congress, and the Alameda County Art Collection. Gallery exhibitions include the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Marine Santa Monica, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Kala Art Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Johansson Projects. Museum exhibitions include the San Jose Museum of Art, Katonah Museum of Art, and Nicolaysen Art Museum. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Sleek Magazine (Berlin), Invisible City (Melbourne), Artweek, Elephant, and The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon. She has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Jentel Artist Residency Program, the Millay Colony for the Arts and Recology in San Francisco and received a Fellowship from Kala Art Institute. Recently the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, she lives and works in San Francisco, California.
The UNC Asheville Department of Art & Art History will open Drawing Discourse, the university's sixth annual international juried exhibition of contemporary drawing, with a lecture by Juror Val Britton, at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, in the Humanities Lecture Hall on campus. An opening reception will follow from 6-8 p.m. in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall. These events and the exhibit are free and open to the public.
For more information, email exhibit organizer Tamie Beldue, UNC Asheville Associate Professor at tbeldue@unca.edu.
